Mission
A collaborative venture between the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute and UConn’s College of Engineering, the Engineering for Human Rights initiative is focused on making human rights an integral component of effective engineering practice. We are teaching tomorrow’s engineers risk management, climate resiliency, life-cycle analysis, and impact assessment. Our faculty specialize in research key to advancing human health, environmental sustainability, and industrial competitiveness. Together, we are focused on safeguarding people and nature, while advancing innovation.
Events
Upcoming Events
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Nov13Measuring Changes in Attitudes Towards Human Rights in Engineering StudentsThe Dodd Center for Human Rights12:30 PM
This event will explore preliminary findings from a two-year study of a pilot human rights curriculum introduced in the College of Engineering at UConn. The principal investigator and graduate students involved in the research will discuss the early outcomes of their work and the implications for engineering education.
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Jan28Who Bears the Risk? Problem Translation in Offshore Wind Energy & Engineering EducationThe Dodd Center for Human Rights4:00 PM
Who bears the risk? For whom are problems defined? Desen Özkan examines how seeing technology as a sociotechnical system, rather than a neutral artifact, can build grounded, collective agency to reimagine who education and energy systems are for.
News
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UConn School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. students, Michael Samulevich and Gregory Riley III, have the opportunity to work directly with Pfizer Scientists through the Pfizer Fellowship.
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Faculty from engineering, human rights, and education are integrating human rights into the engineering curricula to foster a more socially aware generation of engineers
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At UConn, the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative is changing the way our engineers are taught to approach all kinds of projects
